Hi Eric,
You'll have to *except* my occasionally flippant postings. It's one of those
little developmental ideas as "you can take the boy out of the working class,
but can't take the working class out of the boy". Honestly, I really have no
interest in quantitative measures. The power, I mean what I really see as
the essential power in activity theory, is its use for qualitative
transformations. So, sure, you can probably come up with something to
quantify, but that is not what I'm interested in. Not all all.
And I'm not a person in authority to appeal to either. My "official"
position with chsig has nothing to do with expertise -- it is what I
consider paying my dues. That I was "chosen" is simply a matter of everyone
else taking two steps back, while I stood still. Hesitation turned fate.
But there's no regrets there -- I'm just happy to help out, although it means
struggling against the conflation of appointment with authority.
I really can't help with the problems of quantification. If push came to
shove, I might make a statement about the problems with trying to do so.
But check out Roger Barker's work on ecological psychology -- he and his crew
came up with quantitative measures that are not incompatible with activity
theory. Good stuff.
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